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Attacks across Baghdad and northern Iraq kill 70 - CNN Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:34:57 GMT

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Attacks across Baghdad and northern Iraq kill 70
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Baghdad (CNN) -- At least 70 people have been killed in another wave of the horrifying daily violence that is threatening to unravel Iraq, police officials around the country said. More than 40 were killed in Baghdad Monday, many of whom were on their ...
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A Wave Of Violence Sweeps Iraq - Huffington Post Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:05:54 GMT

A Wave Of Violence Sweeps Iraq
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In 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stood before lawmakers and experts at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and proclaimed, “Today, Iraq has become a peaceful, democratic country that relies on its democratic institutions.” At ...


Damaged Torah scrolls, salvaged in Iraq, buried in NY - Fox News Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:29:23 GMT

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Damaged Torah scrolls, salvaged in Iraq, buried in NY
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"This project is somewhat reflective of the new Iraq," said Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. "We are saying we would like to share and preserve the history and the heritage of the Jews, of the Christians, of the Muslims." The artifacts ...
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Violence grips Iraq in day of deadly bombings - Aljazeera.com Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:50:03 GMT

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Violence grips Iraq in day of deadly bombings
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At least 92 people have been killed and 161 wounded in a string of deadly attacks across Iraq, security sources told Al Jazeera, in attacks mostly targeting Shia Muslims, who mark a big religious festival next week. No one has claimed responsibility ...


There's So Much Violence In Iraq The Tragedy Has Become Easy To Ignore - Huffington Post Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:59:49 GMT

There's So Much Violence In Iraq The Tragedy Has Become Easy To Ignore
Huffington Post
In late November, Prashant Rao, the Baghdad bureau chief for Agence France-Presse, found himself with a terrible, familiar problem. The daily story he had to write on the news in Iraq -- a typical one by that country's standards, full of death and ...


Exclusive: US Fingers Iranian Commandos for Kidnapping… - Foreign Policy (blog) Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:56:12 GMT

Exclusive: US Fingers Iranian Commandos for Kidnapping…
Foreign Policy (blog)
U.S. intelligence officials believe that Iranian commandos took part in a deadly attack on a compound of dissidents inside Iraq and then spirited seven members of the group back to Iran, highlighting Tehran's increasingly free hand inside Iraq in the ...

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Scores killed in Iraq bloodshed ahead of Shi'ite holy day - Reuters Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:26:13 GMT

Scores killed in Iraq bloodshed ahead of Shi'ite holy day
Reuters
TIKRIT (Reuters) - Suicide bombers and gunmen killed scores of people in Iraq on Monday in attacks mostly targeting Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims and official buildings ahead of a major Shi'ite ritual next week. Al Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim militants have ...


Attacks across Iraq leave at least 29 dead - Los Angeles Times Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:29:14 GMT

Attacks across Iraq leave at least 29 dead
Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — A group of suicide bombers launched a brazen assault on a police station north of Baghdad, killing eight policemen, the deadliest in a string of attacks across Iraq on Monday that killed at least 29 people, official said. There was no ...


Sectarian Attacks Kill 65 in Iraq - Voice of America Tue, 17 Dec 2013 06:18:03 GMT

Sectarian Attacks Kill 65 in Iraq
Voice of America
There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks, but insurgent groups, mainly al-Qaida and other Sunni militants, frequently target members of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, whom they consider to be apostates. Hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims ...


Generator theft in Iraq brings stiff sentence for Richmond man - Richmond Times Dispatch Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:11:07 GMT